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Elder Caring Lawyer

As explorers and discoverers

As explorers and discoverers let us engage each other What is possible? What do we not know if…? :- Doug.

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Capable of great depth

Even your family is capable of great depth. :- Doug.

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Looking or digging?

It depends upon that for which you are looking, doesn’t it? If you are looking for differences with another, they are easy to find. We are truly more alike than different, but with our habit of looking for distinctions, it … Continue reading

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The higher heart

The higher heart in this person seek out speak here :- Doug.

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Better is together

The only way we make things better is together. :- Doug.

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Home is the place

Home is the place where especially we the broken can be accepted as whole and as the best the world owns. home is whole-making is home :- Doug.

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Your heart has always

What are the conversations your heart has always desired? What are you waiting for? :- Doug.

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Something larger for your Will

In your Will you might leave your loved ones a larger thing than you’ve already got figured out. :- Doug.

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Restoration to ease

Restoration to the ease of a body of 40 or even 30 is not possible for a body of 80 growing translucent. It may not even be desirable. But healing—wholeness—is possible and desirable. :- Doug.

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The important thing is a story

The important thing is a story. Even in meeting, what is important is the story: the story we learn of the other, the story we make together. Story is of action, and of meaning, and of courage for the hearer … Continue reading

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& I took the path…

& I, I took the path, thought I, less traveled by as if that made all the difference but difference I learned is not the truth, does not exist what exists is our connection to the whole each of us … Continue reading

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To make us disappear

To make us disappear To live toward our death This is what we are about Every day & month & year Not fearing but courting When we seek to be part To fit in, to have faith & esprit de … Continue reading

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Why complicate your life?

Trusts: why complicate your life if you don’t have to? Simple can be elegant and your best fit. :- Doug.

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Unhappily

No one wants to die unhappily. And yet, sometimes we force this on each other. :- Doug.

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Gathering, stitching

Gathering Stitching Rags & tags Into a whole Not so crazy quilt An opus Of our eldering :- Doug.

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Cuddly lawyer

I’m a lawyer of the soft, cuddly, tender, gentle, kindly, mild, openhearted, large hearted, easy variety. :- Doug.

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How do we want to be present…?

How do we want to be present when we die? :- Doug.

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